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Indiana Pacers' Danny Granger to miss rest of season

Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger will miss the rest of the season to undergo surgery on his left knee, the team announced Thursday. The decision was made after all conservative treatment options couldn't

Indiana Pacers' Danny Granger to miss rest of season

Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger will miss the rest of the season to undergo surgery on his left knee, the team announced Thursday.

The decision was made after all conservative treatment options couldn't alleviate the soreness Granger has been suffering due to patellar tendinosis. After consultation between Granger, the Pacers' medical staff and Dr. James Andrews, surgery became the preferred option, according to the release.

Dr. Christopher Kaeding, who has not examined Granger and was talking about the injury in general, told The Star last week that surgery is an option but that it doesn't have a "slam dunk-high success rate."

Miami's Dwyane Wade had surgery for a similar condition in May 2007 and returned to lead the NBA in scoring the following season. Former Miami point guard Jason Williams had surgery in the Summer of 2006 and still dealt with pain for much of the first half of the following season.

"It seriously is a difficult problem to deal with," said Kaeding, an orthopedic surgeon at Ohio State University Sports Medicine. "There's probably 15 or 20 treatments people use to quiet it down. The fact that there's so many treatments tells you not one of them works great. If one was great, the other 19 would go away."

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Granger originally injured his knee during the playoff series against Miami last season. He tweaked it again while working out in Los Angeles over the summer. He had a platelet-rich plasma procedure done late in September.

Granger returned for the final two preseason games, but he knew he wasn't past the injury when he felt pain in his knee during a game against the Bulls at Notre Dame.

The Pacers announced that Granger would be out at least three months after he received an injection from Dr. James Andrews in Florida in early November.

He returned Feb. 25 and played five games before continued soreness in the knee sidelined him again. He is expected to be ready for training camp.

Granger, who will be paid $13 million this season, averaged 5.4 points on 28.8 percent shooting.